СШАNiantic Spatial
Head of Talent Acquisition
3 нед. назад
225k–250k USD / годСШАSeniorHybrid
full life cycle recruitingdirect sourcingstructured interviewsatsai toolsrecruiting operationsworkforce planningreporting
Head of Talent Acquisition role at Niantic Spatial, an IT company working on geospatial AI and digital mapping technologies, based in San Francisco with hybrid work format.
About the company
- At Niantic Spatial, we're building the future of physical AI.
- Powered by a proprietary database of over 30 billion posed images, our groundbreaking mapping technology unlocks a new dimension of interaction and spatial intelligence that helps both humans and machines better understand, represent, navigate, and engage with the real environment.
- Our reconstruction technology captures environments with geometric accuracy and extreme detail from any standard camera, and our Visual Positioning System delivers precise positioning almost anywhere in the world.
- We serve customers across robotics, the public sector, and energy and industrial markets - building for the 80% of economic activity that takes place beyond our screens.
About the product
- We develop geospatial AI and digital mapping technologies that enable precise environmental reconstruction and positioning.
- Our core technologies support robotics, public sector, energy, and industrial market clients by providing spatial intelligence beyond conventional screens.
Responsibilities
- Personally run a portfolio of searches across engineering, AI/ML, research, product, go-to-market, operations, and corporate functions, including executive and highly specialized roles.
- Own every stage from intake and market mapping through sourcing, assessment, offer, close, and onboarding handoff.
- Build creative sourcing strategies to find and engage exceptional passive talent in competitive markets.
- Advise executives and hiring managers on role design, candidate profiles, talent availability, market dynamics, and hiring strategy.
- Lead intake and search-strategy discussions that settle requirements, assessment criteria, ownership, and timelines.
- Design hiring processes that balance speed, rigor, inclusion, and candidate experience.
- Build structured interviews that produce real evidence, coach interviewers, keep momentum by driving timely feedback and resolving delays.
- Partner with Compensation on offers that are competitive and internally consistent.
- Manage contract recruiters, sourcers, search firms, and agencies: set priorities and performance standards, allocate requisitions by business priority, judge partners on hiring outcomes and pipeline quality.
- Define the future structure, capabilities, and operating model of Talent Acquisition, recruit, onboard, and develop the team as we grow.
- Build a recruiting culture that is accountable and focused on speed, quality, and business impact.
- Own and improve recruiting processes, workflows, documentation, and service standards.
- Adopt AI-enabled tools to strengthen sourcing, assessment, engagement, and reporting responsibly.
- Maintain ATS data discipline and ensure compliance with employment law, internal policy, and data privacy requirements.
- Build dashboards and updates for the executive team covering pipeline health, conversion, time to fill, source effectiveness, offer acceptance, and agency spend.
- Use data to find bottlenecks and improve forecasting.
- Help define our employee value proposition and partner with Marketing to strengthen our standing in talent markets.
Requirements
- 8+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience, ideally in high-growth technology, AI, deep tech, or similarly competitive talent markets.
- Experience as a hands-on Talent Acquisition leader or functional owner while personally carrying a meaningful requisition load.
- Exceptional direct-sourcing ability, with a track record of engaging and closing hard-to-reach passive candidates.
- Experience advising executives and senior hiring managers as a credible, pragmatic talent partner.
- An AI-forward mindset with demonstrated experience integrating AI tools into recruiting workflows to increase capacity and improve decisions.
- Comfort operating through ambiguity and changing priorities, balancing strategy, leadership, and hands-on execution.
- A bias for simplifying process, focusing assessment on what matters most, and using evidence to guide decisions.
- High integrity and discretion with sensitive candidate and company information.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience managing contract recruiters, sourcers, external partners, or internal Talent Acquisition professionals.
- Experience building, developing, or scaling a Talent Acquisition team, particularly within an early-stage or pre-product-market-fit company.
- Familiarity with the responsible and legally compliant use of AI and automation in recruiting.
- Recruiting experience in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, geospatial technology, enterprise software, or physical AI.
- Experience supporting both U.S. and international hiring.
Conditions
- Hybrid work format based in San Francisco, California, United States.
- Salary range: 225000–250000 USD per year.